Heart failure : a combined medical and surgical approach /
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| Language: | English |
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Malden, Mass. :
Blackwell Futura,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Epidemiology of heart failure: progression to pandemic?
- Heart failure clinical trials: shaping the evidence for treatment guidelines
- Standard medical therapy of heart failure
- Novel therapies in heart failure
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillators and biventricular pacemakers in congestive heart failure
- Managing a heart failure clinic
- Novel imaging technologies for heart failure patients
- Assessment of myocardial viability in ischemic cardiomyopathy
- Bypass surgery in the treatment of ischemic cardiomyopathy
- Valve surgery for patients with left ventricular dysfunction
- Ventricular reconstruction and device therapies for cardiomyopathy patients
- Mechanical circulatory support
- The role of heart transplantation
- Perioperative care of the surgical patient with heart failure: from conventional cardiac surgery to mechanical circulatory support
- Biological approaches to heart failure: gene transfer and cell transplantation
- Ethical issues in cardiothoracic medicine.